Obama has finally twigged to the seriousness of the Ebola crisis and nominated Ron Klain, a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases and taught at Johns Hopkins, as “Ebola Czar.”
Ha, just kidding! He’s a lawyer and longtime Democratic political operative.
A few more facts about Klain:
He helped approve the loan to Solyndra.
He met his environmental activist wife while both were undergraduates at Georgetown.
Kevin Spacey (who looks nothing like him) played him in a movie about the Florida recount.
He used to be a columnist for Bloomberg View. Really, what screams “I’m an Ebola expert” more than “Keeping Working-Class Voters for Obama” or “How Democrats Can Make Their Case for Raising Revenue”?
He has a Twitter feed. You have to go back to October 2 to find a mention of Ebola: a retweet.
Did George W. Bush ever attempt such a tone-deaf nomination? Once, when he tried to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Except: 1. He quickly withdrew it, and 2. Miers was at least a lawyer. This is like Bush nominating Miers to be Surgeon General.
As Instapundit is wont to say, “the country is in the very best of hands.”
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Hat tip to “Dave” from the Classical Values blog: “If Klain can do for Ebola what he did for Solyndra, I’m sold.”